"Chinese virus - " yes or no?

grahamg said:
I believe some respected scientists have examined the genome of the Covid 19 virus, and published their work in respected scientific journals debunking this conspiracy theory business a month ago. If I can I'll come back to you with some names, or a link, and all the rest of us eejits can read it to our hearts content, if our minds are open enough to accept it to make it worthwhile. :cautious: .
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Thanks! That whole "70% of communication is nonverbal" thing becomes an issue on message boards!

As for the research into Wuhan lab, the US military isn't considering research to date conclusive. This sort of thing generally takes a lot of time and study.

China isn't helping matters with new restrictions on academic research into the origins of COVID-19.

https://us.cnn.com/2020/04/12/asia/china-coronavirus-research-restrictions-intl-hnk/index.html

Excerpts:

China has imposed restrictions on the publication of academic research on the origins of the novel coronavirus, according to a central government directive and online notices published by two Chinese universities, that have since been removed from the web.​
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Under the new policy, all academic papers on Covid-19 will be subject to extra vetting before being submitted for publication. Studies on the origin of the virus will receive extra scrutiny and must be approved by central government officials, according to the now-deleted posts.​
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The increased scrutiny appears to be the latest effort by the Chinese government to control the narrative on the origins of the coronavirus pandemic...​
 

StarSong said:
Would that it were limited to communist regimes and dictators. These days there's a whole lot of spin from virtually every government, ours included. Plenty of politicians are peeing on their citizens legs while loudly proclaiming it's raining.
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Agreed. And not just us. I can't tell the difference between most nations' handling of the CCP Virus regardless of the label for form of government.
 
I copied this from the comments of the link provided , but I agree with every word:
The Chinese wet markets are reopening because: A) the virus actually came from Wuhan B) they’d like to start another shitstorm in short order. Either way, isn’t it time the rest of the world sanctioned them and perhaps isolated them economically the way Iran has been isolated? Sure, they own billions of Treasury bonds, but they can’t unload them without committing economic suicide. Put the screws on their leadership and see how long Winnie the Poo survives, because one thing is clear, the whole world is at risk every moment the CCP is still active. There has to be some downside to their kicking out viruses on the rest of the world with the frequency of a cheap ham radio.
 
grahamg said:
Look, if asking hypothetical questions amounts to someone being dumb in your world so be it, but as my old dad used to say, sometimes you should take notice of a fool.
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There was nothing hypothetical about it, it was a veiled insult to the person, because they "need someone to blame". You seem to think you're clever. I beg to differ.
 
Gaer said:
4-16-2020 They just announced on Fox News that the origin has been traced to a laboratory in China. I have no more information on this.
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EXCLUSIVE: There is increasing confidence that the COVID-19 outbreak likely originated in a Wuhan laboratory, though not as a bioweapon but as part of China's attempt to demonstrate that its efforts to identify and combat viruses are equal to or greater than the capabilities of the United States, multiple sources who have been briefed on the details of early actions by China's government and seen relevant materials tell Fox News.

This may be the "costliest government cover-up of all time," one of the sources said.

The sources believe the initial transmission of the virus – a naturally occurring strain that was being studied there – was bat-to-human and that "patient zero" worked at the laboratory, then went into the population in Wuhan.

The “increasing confidence” comes from classified and open-source documents and evidence, the sources said. Fox News has requested to see the evidence directly. Sources emphasized -- as is often the case with intelligence -- that it’s not definitive and should not be characterized as such. Some inside the administration and the intelligence and epidemiological communities are more skeptical, and the investigation is continuing.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/coronavirus-wuhan-lab-china-compete-us-sources.amp
 
garyt1957 said:
There was nothing hypothetical about it, it was a veiled insult to the person, because they "need someone to blame". You seem to think you're clever. I beg to differ.
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I've lived long enough not to be worried too much about negative opinions and here's something else to be sniffy about, or think is stupid (because maybe it is as a statement of the obvious):

" It'll either rain or go dark before morning"!

People do often need someone to blame though, either that or the "blame game" we keep hearing about doesn't exist.
 

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